Word: swordsman
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...intercollegiate fencing tournament will take place at the New York Recquet and Tennis Club some time in March. Harvard, Columbia, Annapolis, and Cornell will be represented by three men each. The challenge trophy, to be held for one year by the winning team, is a bronze statue of a swordsman, and has been won by Harvard in all four tournaments...
...President of the Fencing Club received a letter yesterday from Mr. W. T. Lawson of the New York Racquet and Tennis Club in regard to the trophy that Harvard won last year. It is to be a bronze statuette of a swordsman of the time of Charlemagne, and will be completed about May 1. He says that the Racquet and Tennis Club, who offer the trophy, will allow it to be exhibited for a month in Cambridge, whether Harvard wins or not. Mr. Lawson suggests Saturday, May 4, as the date for the contest with Columbia...
...caused by personal enmity, but arranged by committees specially appointed by the several classes to look after this branch of athletic (?) sports. It is the duty of the class committee to produce a man who may sustain the honor of the class by proving himself the best swordsman in the university. The happy student who is chosen is often ignorant of his opponents names. He may refuse, if he will, but as it is considered a great honor to represent the class he seldom declines to fight. As class feeling runs high, duels are frequent...
Call not for swordsman nor groom nor thrall...